Tainted Games: Father of former Olympian killed in Beijing!

Two police officers walk out from the gate of the Drum Tower in Beijing Saturday Aug. 9, 2008. A man attacked two relatives of a U.S. Olympic coach at the Drum Tower on Saturday, stabbing the man to death and wounding his female companion on the first day of the Beijing Games.

BEIJING – The murder of the father of a former Olympian at a Beijing landmark cast a sad shadow over the first full day of Olympic competition Saturday, just hours after China’s jubilant opening of the Summer Games.

The U.S. Olympic Committee confirmed Bachman died from knife wounds and that Barbara Bachman suffered life-threatening injuries. She and their Chinese tour guide, who was also injured in the attack, were being treated in a Beijing hospital.